We've Been Here All Along

Some songs are timeless because they comment on the nature of relationships.
They can symbolize timeless struggles and culturally inspire cooperation
around needed reforms. One impressive example of music's positive impact
was on Einstein, he said, "The theory of relativity occurred to me by intuition,
and music was the driving force behind this intuition."

Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" can help inspire us to uncover and
reveal what's truly needed to cure the suffocating toxic relationships in
the financial community. As the first line of the song goes, "There must
be some kind of way out of here, said the joker to the thief." The joker
and thief are observers and are first to see an upheaval ahead. Today they
might say: "How do we get out of all the debt and move towards a stable economy?"

"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief." Did capitalism
really create this environment? Or did it come from something more like a
government imposed private debt money system? If you've never heard of such
a thing, there are outstanding financial history books that can bring you
up to speed. The bottom line is that thieves have funded economists so that
we stay confused. Most of the global financial system requires society to
incur increasing amounts of debt to pay previous debts.

"Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along
the line know what any of it is worth." Look to natural resource
price manipulation and the gaming of the real economy. How much of it
is taken for granted?

"There's no reason to get excited, the thief he kindly spoke." Everything's
under control the story goes. Should we continue to pay 25% worth of our
economy in interest payments? Should we keep allowing banks to create money
through debt at interest, without actually having it in their accounts in
the first place?

"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you
and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate." Many take
no responsibility for trying to do the right thing. The fatalists will
say there's nothing we can do. Human nature can't be fixed; we'll pick
up the pieces after the system completely breaks down. Thinking there's
nothing we can do is a joke.

"So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." Perhaps
there is no way out until we understand the knowledge that is being used
against us. The prime example: there is no earning your way out of a debt
based financial system. The need for reform is painfully obvious once you
see how it works. We need to be ready to get behind a reform such as The
Chicago Plan of the 1930s, if we truly want to get out of here.

"All along the watchtower, princes kept their view." Today's princes
are the corporate owners, and especially the major global banking ones. We're
led to believe that the Watchtower, or The Federal Reserve (Fed), watches
our "money" system for us, in our best interest. When in reality, the banks
that own it figured out how to make us and the money we use, dependent on
the amount of debt they sell. Congress 100 years ago, allowed private individuals
behind the Fed to determine through banking, the quantity, type, and value
of money. This engineering created an insider's advantage. It's nothing new.
The US was founded on the government being in charge of money creation, and
quickly thereafter private interests battled for that control. In 1913 there
was a victory for private banks, and they've been feeding us false solutions
ever since.

"While all the women came and went barefoot servants too. Outside in the
cold distance, a wildcat did growl. Two riders were approaching, the
wind began to howl." All along the Federal Reserve we're told about
price stability and full employment. We're not told that using debt to
add money to our financial system guarantees that we will have neither.
Winds of change are howling. If you're listening, can you hear it?

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